Craig Carton Might Skip Boomer's Hall of Fame for Yankees Postseason
The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle
September 30, 2026
Craig Carton and Big Mac react to a disgusting viral video of a player during a Red Sox game before debating the pitching rotation for the New York Yankees. They also discuss Craig's potential conflict between a postseason game and Boomer Esiason's Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Speakers Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle
TopicsSports
Craig Carton (0:00)
I've seen the video that The Call of Pride to the Break was talking about.
Chris McMonigle (0:04)
I didn't see it.
Craig Carton (0:04)
With Contreras, who was the Red Sox's first baseman.
Chris McMonigle (0:08)
Yeah.
Craig Carton (0:09)
Last night. And I'm gonna show it to you.
Chris McMonigle (0:12)
Okay.
Craig Carton (0:13)
And then I'll put it out on Twitter after I show you, okay? Or should I put it out on Twitter first? Yeah. Let me put it out so that people can kind of catch up to it. Yeah, sure.
Chris McMonigle (0:21)
I'm the least important person in this component.
Craig Carton (0:23)
No, no.
Chris McMonigle (0:23)
Again, the audience is more important. No, Joe Schmo is more important. I agree.
Craig Carton (0:26)
Yes, Joe Schmo is more important. No, that is correct. I'm sorry that you feel some type of way about that. It is as disgusting as the caller said. He did not exaggerate one bit. So I'll put it out. Give me one second here. I'll post this to my social media, which what's my social media handle? Craig Carton Live, I think, right? What is Contr... Hold on.
Hold on a second. Contreras, oh, I can't spell it. Contreras is eating off of his neck, okay?
All right, I put it out there. Now, you ready to see it?
Chris McMonigle (1:04)
Yes. Should I just go to your Twitter handle?
Craig Carton (1:06)
Well, I'll just show it to you right here, okay? So it's obviously last night, 10, 19 last night. So middle of the game. All right, here we go.
Contreras is right there. He has facial hair, okay? Right hand starts picking at something under his ear by his neck, and then after he picks something off his neck, he looks at it and he eats it. I bet you the smell's kid eats it.
He does.
Chris McMonigle (1:39)
All right, so what do we... My best guess and my vote would be...
Craig Carton (1:43)
You going popcorn?
Chris McMonigle (1:44)
No, no, that's done. Because he had a really...
Craig Carton (1:47)
Yes.
Chris McMonigle (1:48)
My vote is now, and I don't know if this is disgusting or not, less disgusting. My guess is some sort of scab.
Craig Carton (1:55)
He ate his own scab?
Chris McMonigle (1:57)
I think it's some sort of just like he had a little bit of like a cut or something, and it scabbed over and he kind of like ripped it off. It was probably very small, and he put it in his mouth.
Craig Carton (2:06)
He looked at it, and he put it into his mouth.
Chris McMonigle (2:10)
I think he ate his scab.
Craig Carton (2:12)
I think that's what it was. Whatever it was, it was stuck to his skin. It could have been a bug. That's why I thought maybe he liked mosquitoes.
Chris McMonigle (2:20)
I think, do you think a bug is more disgusting or less disgusting than a scab?
Craig Carton (2:23)
I think a bug is less disgusting than a scab. Really? Yes.
Chris McMonigle (2:27)
Scab is like your own body healing itself. It's just a little...
Craig Carton (2:31)
Would you rather eat a bugger or a booger?
Chris McMonigle (2:35)
You see, but that's different.
Craig Carton (2:36)
Why? A scab's a booger, basically.
Chris McMonigle (2:37)
No, a scab's on the outside, grows on the outside. A booger's like in your nose and like, no.
Craig Carton (2:42)
It's a hard-crusted booger.
Chris McMonigle (2:45)
Yeah, no, but that's inside. This is like, if the blood just hardened or something, like, you know, sometimes you have a...
Craig Carton (2:53)
Why would you eat either one of them?
Chris McMonigle (2:54)
No, of course, 100%. Putting it in his mouth after is weird.
Craig Carton (2:58)
Is weird.
Chris McMonigle (2:59)
But I think, like, eating like a bug is weirder to me. Do you think it's like a family thing? It's like a gold member, right? He eats his skin, right? The skin that falls off, he puts it in his mouth. You ever see that? I don't remember that scene. But, like, we bite fingernails, like, we bite...
Craig Carton (3:12)
Nervous energy. Yeah.
Chris McMonigle (3:13)
Yes, I've seen people do that. I don't know if I'd swallow it, but I've had loose fingernails in my teeth. I bite off a fingernail.
Craig Carton (3:20)
I've never had a loose fingernail in my teeth.
Chris McMonigle (3:21)
You've never bit off your fingernail? No.
Craig Carton (3:23)
That's why nail clippers were invented. Oh, yeah.
Chris McMonigle (3:25)
You've never bit off your fingernail? Like, just, like, peeled it, like, you know, got a little bit off?
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